By Sylvia Doyle
A guide to designing and running a performance‑related pay scheme, including scheme design, performance assessment and key legal and equality considerations.
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- What is performance-related pay?
- The benefits of using performance-related pay
- Risks and challenges
- Deciding whether to use performance-related pay
- Reviewing current pay arrangements
- The performance management framework
- The pay budget
- Equality and performance-related pay
- Contractual issues
- First steps
- The role of line managers
- Employee buy-in
- Scheme design
- Scope
- Performance assessment
- Timing of performance reviews and pay awards
- Performance ratings, pay and progression
- Using other measures alongside individual performance
- Implementation
- Performance-related pay scheme review
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About the author
Sylvia Doyle
Sylvia is managing consultant of Reward First People Consulting. She is also a Fellow of the CIPD and a CIPD programme lead tutor for its postgraduate reward programmes.
Her expertise includes: pay structures; total reward; variable pay; executive remuneration; and strategic reward to develop pragmatic reward solutions.
Sylvia mentors HR leaders, having established a successful reward mentoring programme in 2010. She is an independent non-executive director on remuneration committees and speaks in the UK and internationally on reward issues.